Lauder 05 November 2016 Sequences

The images in this album are sequences of frames from the day’s action.  They are formed by stacking JPEGs and creating an animated ‘GIF’ (.gif) file.  In the process, the number of colours is reduced from millions to just 256.  This can create blocking/posterising/banding in areas of even detail.  I also have to reduce the…

Botanic Lights… and other stuff

Botanic Lights 2016 – Explore has been designed by leading Scottish lighting designer, Grant Anderson, working with composer, Claire Mackenzie, and projection designer, Ross Blair, to create an all-new journey of light around the Garden, themed around exploring regions of the world where the Garden’s plants and trees originate, including the US, China, Chile, Nepal…

Buchanty 19 October 2016

I looked for a chance after the first decent rain of autumn – it was just over 0.4 m on the gauge.  This seemed an ideal height – and the water was very clear.  There weren’t big numbers of fish jumping, but for the first time I was seeing them get all the way up! …